Metta

Where Metta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Metta.

  • Vowel-ended
Metta through the years
  1. 1737
    Metta von Oberg born
    German Baroness
  2. 1831
    Metta Victoria Fuller born
    American writer
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #435 among girls with 15 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,696.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Metta Victoria Fuller · American writer, 1831–1885
  • Metta von Oberg · German Baroness, 1737–1794
  • Metta Gramberg · Dutch actress, born 1959
  • Metta Permadi · Indonesian actress, born 1989
  • Metta Lillie · Swedish diarist, 1709–1788

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.